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SALSAT — Live Satellite Tracking (NORAD 46495)
Track SALSAT (NORAD catalog number 46495) live on the WatchSat interactive 3D globe above. Its position is propagated in real time from the latest CelesTrak two-line element set using the SGP4/SDP4 orbital model — the same math professional trackers run. It is object K of 2020's 68th orbital launch (COSPAR designation 2020-068K). It went up together with 11 other satellites from that launch still in the active catalog. As of this element set it had completed roughly 32,791 revolutions of Earth.
Moving at about 7.64 km/s, SALSAT flies in low Earth orbit at an altitude of roughly 474 × 487 km, completing one revolution every 94.1 minutes — about 15.3 trips around Earth per day. The orbit is essentially circular (eccentricity 0.0010). Its 97.9° retrograde, near-polar inclination is characteristic of a Sun-synchronous orbit — the type Earth-imaging and weather satellites use to revisit each spot at the same local solar time. Its orbital plane crosses the equator northbound at right ascension 258.4°. Earth's equatorial bulge drifts that plane eastward about 1.06° per day.
Orbital elements
| Orbit regime | low Earth orbit (LEO) |
|---|---|
| Perigee × apogee altitude | ~474 km × 487 km |
| Inclination | 97.89° |
| Orbital period | 94.1 min (15.31 rev/day) |
| Eccentricity | 0.00100 |
| Element set epoch | 2026-09-07 |
| COSPAR designation | 2020-068K |
| NORAD catalog number | 46495 |
This page's orbital elements come from the CelesTrak catalog of 2026-09-08. The live 3D view above fetches its own current CelesTrak data when the page opens, through an edge cache that refreshes roughly every 30 minutes.
About the Other Active Satellites group
SALSAT is one of 4,471 active satellites in WatchSat's general catalog — the broad population of Earth-observation, communications, science, amateur-radio and technology spacecraft outside the giant broadband constellations. Browse all other active satellites live in 3D.
Can you see SALSAT from the ground?
Sometimes. Like most low-Earth-orbit spacecraft, SALSAT is visible only around dawn and dusk, when your sky is dark but the satellite is still sunlit — and whether you can spot it depends on its size and reflectivity. See pass predictions for your location for when it is above your horizon and sunlit.
Related satellites
Nearest catalog neighbors of SALSAT in the Other Active Satellites group — usually craft from the same or adjacent launches:
- NORBI (NORAD 46494)
- ICEYE-X7 (NORAD 46496)
- DEKART (NORAD 46493)
- ICEYE-X6 (NORAD 46497)
- GONETS-M 19 (NORAD 46488)
- GONETS-M 18 (NORAD 46487)
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